tongue-in-cheek
英 [ˌtʌŋ ɪn ˈtʃiːk]
美 [ˌtʌŋ ɪn ˈtʃiːk]
adj. 言不由衷的; 随便说说的; 开玩笑的
adv. 无诚意地
牛津词典
adj.
- 言不由衷的;随便说说的;开玩笑的
not intended seriously; done or said as a joke- a tongue-in-cheek remark
一句戏言
- a tongue-in-cheek remark
柯林斯词典
- → see:tongue
英英释义
adj
- cleverly amusing in tone
- a bantering tone
- facetious remarks
- tongue-in-cheek advice
adv
- not seriously
- I meant it facetiously
- in a bantering fashion
- he spoke to her banteringly
双语例句
- I suspect even some Americans use them in a tongue-in-cheek manner?
不过我怀疑甚至一些美国人也是虚情假意地在用它们。 - Thus this was tongue-in-cheek fashion, the liquid bronze metallic dresses with moulded exaggerated hips poking fun at the old-fashioned notions of what was to come.
因此,这曾是半开玩笑的时尚,液态青铜色金属材质的衣裙,带着塑形夸张的髋部,取笑着那些对未来事物的老式看法。 - Television viewers are being given a chance to choose a wife for Prince William in a tongue-in-cheek show.
电视台“四频道”的数字频道“E4”将在一个闲谈节目中让电视观众们为威廉王子选妃。 - 'You rascal! You took my bike earlier this week but forgot to tell me where you'd leave it! the tongue-in-cheek note begins.
在这封打趣的信的开头写到:你这个混蛋,你在这周早些时候偷走我的自行车,却忘了告诉我你要把它放在哪里。 - The embassy responded with a tongue-in-cheek introduction to different kinds of potatoes and a selection of cooking techniques.
大使馆用一种半开玩笑的语气对网民的留言做出了回复,介绍了不同种类的土豆和土豆美食的烹饪方法。 - This is all slightly tongue-in-cheek, I'd like to make that clear
这一切都有些缺少诚意,我想清楚地指出这点。 - Don't take her so seriously, that was just a tongue-in-cheek remark.
不要对此太认真,她只是半开玩笑地说这话的。 - He offered some tongue-in-cheek advice about keeping out of the rain.
他就避免淋雨出了些似真非真的主意。 - The Union Jack is quite tongue-in-cheek.
英国国旗是相当舌半开玩笑。 - It seems tongue-in-cheek to me because at that point in history, people knew that this way of looking at the world was no longer relevant.
这在我看来有些半开玩笑的性质,因为在那个历史时期,人们已经知道这样看待世界不再有意义。